Waste steam and carbon dioxide from a nearby factory will be pumped into the glasshouse, providing heating and a boost to growth.

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That ambition could gain steam this year, when IKEA expects to open a furniture factory near Shanghai, the company's second in China.

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One cold night in 1957, walking home from his salt-making factory in Osaka, in Japan, Mr Ando saw white clouds of steam in the street, and a crowd of people gathering.

ECONOMIST: Momofuku Ando

When a boy lost an arm in the cog-wheels of a steam winch owned by Lord Wimborne, the courts ruled in a landmark judgment in 1898 that the factory boss had breached an absolute duty imposed on him by statute.

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